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Masturbation abstinence practices have returned to the USA in the form of semen retention communities. Followers on one of these male, anti-masturbation forums, “NoFap,” on Reddit (denoted “r/NoFap”), have engaged in homicidal behaviors that appear to be linked to these sexual beliefs and practices. This study uses a systematic search on r/NoFap and two control forums (r/pornfree, and r/stopdrinking) to define a corpus of violent content. The study's goals were to describe the nature of threats on r/NoFap and suggest whether the violence might be attributable to sexual deprivation or false beliefs that non-sexual targets caused their violent urges. Of the 421 violent posts identified from September 2011 to September 2022, r/NoFap contained the majority (94.3%). Violent threats on r/NoFap mostly targeted pornographers, women, scientists, specific persons, or any person (i.e. homicidal “rage”). Violent threats against r/NoFap’s own followers were growing most quickly. Violent posts were well-supported with upvotes by other followers in r/NoFap. These data are important because NoFap may represent a growing threat for real-world violence.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

This is part of why history search of comments and posts on reddit had to die via shutting down the api.

Reddit could not allow too much research like this to expose the underbelly of the site.

Once the site IPOs it introduces a financial incentive for shorts to find things on the site that can be turned into drama that damages its value, so research like this would find potential finance motivated backers and massively increase in quantity.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Thoughts on the wisdom of betting against reddit once it goes public? It sounds like free money, especially now that the VC money faucet is turned off.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm convinced that the company is being propped up by CIA money, which means they could keep the lights on for decades. They've done it before, dumped money in businesses to keep them afloat because they were part of an intelligence operation, like that company that sold encryption machines to foreign governments that all had secret backdoors built into them. Reddit has never made money and it probably never will. Idk as much as I'd like to bet against that hell site I think the thumb is on the scales

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Once again people gotta read Palo Alto, so much of this shit is literally being propped up by CIA money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

New book by Malcolm Harris about the history of California, Capitalism, and the world. It's also referenced in the wounded knee featured post

There is a PDF of it here in the Chunka Luta library

It's in the required reading folder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

listening to the Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials audio book bulborb-stare

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Especially after they ousted the creator by trying to lock him up for life because he shared books

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Are you talking about Aaron Swartz or someone else?

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